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Recent degradation of interior Alaska permafrost mapped with ground surveys, geophysics, deep drilling, and repeat airborne lidar
Thomas A. Douglas
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, 9th
Avenue, Building 4070, Fort Wainwright, AK 99709, USA
Christopher A. Hiemstra
U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, 9th
Avenue, Building 4070, Fort Wainwright, AK 99709, USA
now at: US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Geospatial Management
Office, Salt Lake City, UT 84138, USA
John E. Anderson
U.S. Army Geospatial Research Laboratory, Corbin Field Station 15315 Magnetic Lane, Woodford, VA 22580, USA
Robyn A. Barbato
U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, 72 Lyme
Road, Hanover, NH 03755, USA
Kevin L. Bjella
U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, 9th
Avenue, Building 4070, Fort Wainwright, AK 99709, USA
Elias J. Deeb
U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, 72 Lyme
Road, Hanover, NH 03755, USA
Arthur B. Gelvin
U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, 9th
Avenue, Building 4070, Fort Wainwright, AK 99709, USA
Patricia E. Nelsen
U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, 9th
Avenue, Building 4070, Fort Wainwright, AK 99709, USA
Stephen D. Newman
U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, 72 Lyme
Road, Hanover, NH 03755, USA
Stephanie P. Saari
U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, 9th
Avenue, Building 4070, Fort Wainwright, AK 99709, USA
Anna M. Wagner
U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, 9th
Avenue, Building 4070, Fort Wainwright, AK 99709, USA
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Short summary
Permafrost is actively degrading across high latitudes due to climate warming. We combined thousands of end-of-summer active layer measurements, permafrost temperatures, geophysical surveys, deep borehole drilling, and repeat airborne lidar to quantify permafrost warming and thawing at sites across central Alaska. We calculate the mass of permafrost soil carbon potentially exposed to thaw over the past 7 years (0.44 Pg) is similar to the yearly carbon dioxide emissions of Australia.
Permafrost is actively degrading across high latitudes due to climate warming. We combined...
